Mark Cuban

On Tuesday, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban confirmed that he directed the team to stop playing the national anthem before home games and has no plans for it to return in the future, according to a report by ESPN. The team did not officially announce the change, but the national anthem has yet to be […]

Mark Cuban — the billionaire owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks and star of ABC’s hit reality TV series Shark Tank — has publicly stated a desire to kneel alongside his players during “The Star-Spangled Banner” in protest of racial injustice and police brutality. The 61-year-old made the proclamation during an interview with Jeremy Schaap […]

Mark Cuban is the latest celebrity using his platform to share his views in the wake of the George Floyd protests and the “Black Lives Matter” movement. The outspoken owner of the Dallas Mavericks shared a message with his 7.9 million followers on Twitter yesterday, which included an excerpt from a post written by Emerson […]

ESPN’s 10-part docu-series, The Last Dance — which covers Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls during their final championship season in 1997-98 — has undoubtedly captured the imagination of sports fans and put Jordan’s incredible basketball career back in the spotlight. Longtime fans will remember, though, that Jordan’s NBA career didn’t actually end at the […]

Despite the fact that they are now down to a tie for sixth place in the Western Conference with a 33-22 record, the Dallas Mavericks didn’t really make any game-changing moves ahead of last Thursday’s trade deadline. However, as owner Mark Cuban recently suggested, the team did make an effort to upgrade their roster in […]

Selena Gomez had a very happy birthday, and her best friends gave her the gift that keeps on giving — until September, at least. The “Come and Get It” singer, who turned 27 years old on July 22, posted an adorable video to Instagram one week after she celebrated her special day, revealing that her […]

Barbara Corcoran celebrated her 70th birthday in an unusual way. In honor of her milestone day, the Shark Tank mogul hosted a belated birthday bash in New York City in which she staged her own “funeral,” complete with a creepy coffin. Corcoran’s guests arrived at a Fifth Avenue penthouse to find the ABC star lying […]

The Dallas Mavericks may have failed to enter the Western Conference Playoffs for the third consecutive year but they don’t expect themselves to rot at the bottom of the league for long. Before the February NBA trade deadline, the Mavericks engaged in a blockbuster deal with the New York Knicks to acquire Kristaps Porzingis and […]

The Dallas Mavericks surprised everyone in the league when they engaged in a blockbuster deal with the New York Knicks before the February NBA trade deadline. The deal sent DeAndre Jordan, Wesley Matthews, Dennis Smith Jr., and two future first-round picks to New York in exchange for Kristaps Porzingis, Tim Hardaway Jr., Courtney Lee, and […]

In the 2018 NBA Draft, the Dallas Mavericks found the player who could potentially replace Dirk Nowitzki as the next face of the franchise – Luka Doncic. From the time they saw him play on the court, the Mavericks already knew that Doncic is bound to become a legitimate superstar in the NBA. During draft […]

In 2014, ABC’s Shark Tank moguls — Mark Cuban, Daymond John, Kevin O’Leary, Barbara Corcoran, and Robert Herjavec — were approached by Salt Lake City entrepreneur Pat Crowley with a health food product, unlike anything they’d seen before. Crowley’s pitch? Energy bars made with sustainable, protein-rich cricket flour. Corcoran wasn’t sure she wanted to try […]

Although Christmas is winding down right now, things were hauntingly creepy on ABC’s Shark Tank when Ten Thirty One Productions first appeared on episode 509 of the show in October of 2013. The timing worked perfectly given that the company produces Haunted Hayrides in Los Angeles — as well as a Horror Camp Out and […]

Billionaire Mark Cuban is considering running for president in 2020, possibly as a Republican or more likely as an Independent, but almost certainly not as a Democrat, Business Insider is reporting. Speaking at Business Insider’s IGNITION conference in New York City, Cuban was asked if he was any closer to making a decision on running […]

Three siblings Kaley, Christian, and Keira Young gave one of the most emotional pitches ever seen on Shark Tank when they presented their product, the Cup Board Pro. According to USA Today, there was not one shark who was not deeply touched by the trio. Their product, a specially designed cutting board with a detachable […]

When Shark Tank returns with new episodes in the fall, it will be the groundbreaking show’s 10th anniversary, dubbed “A Decade of Dreams.” To celebrate, according to TV Insider, ABC has lined up some great guest Sharks to join the entrepreneurial-themed reality series’ regular investors Barbara Corcoran, Mark Cuban, Lori Greiner, Robert Herjavec, Daymond John, […]

Back in 2007, Abe Minkara was quoted in The New York Times about a new niche in personal grooming products: hair care for men who don’t have any. Minkara was the founder of a company called “Bold For Men,” and told The Times that he wasn’t much for the word “bald.” “I prefer being called […]

It’s been almost a year since Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary abandoned his bid to head up Canada’s Conservative Party. But his campaign remains heavily in debt, a problem he can’t handle on his own. The issue is not O’Leary’s lack of personal funds to cover the outstanding amount, which The Globe and Mail reported […]

The NBA community is grieving the loss of prominent sports agent Dan Fegan. According to the Colorado State Patrol, Fegan’s SUV was struck by a commuter bus on Sunday near Aspen. Fegan did not survive the crash, however his 5-year-old son as well as an unidentified 29-year-old California woman sustained serious injuries. Both were airlifted […]

On Sunday night’s episode of Shark Tank, Catlin Powers walked on set with a bold ask: $500,000 for 3 percent of SolSource. The company sells a solar-powered grill that eliminates air pollution caused by smoke. Powers’ pitch included an interesting backstory. While working on environmental issues in the Himalayas, she discovered that local families burned […]

According to Mark Cuban, Bitcoin is like a work of art. No, he’s not talking about how pretty he finds the golden Bitcoin logo. He’s comparing the teen idol of the financial world to traditional forms of investment. The cryptocurrency, which evangelists push as a new form of currency for ecommerce and widespread trade, is […]

Shark Tank host Mark Cuban has opinions regarding the Trump administration’s tax reform. During a conference last Wednesday, Cuban said the proposed tax reform for businesses would not affect the chain of economics in the U.S., Reuters reports. The bill supported by Republicans proposes to cut corporate taxes from the current 35 percent to 20 […]

Season 9 of Shark Tank has been chock full of big name guest sharks, not least of whom was Richard Branson who appeared in early October. The episode was memorable not only for Branson’s presence on the panel but his mini-water fight with Mark Cuban during the pitch of Yunha Kim, who created the meditation […]

Billionaire Mark Cuban has said that if he decides to run for the White House in 2020 he would run as a Republican presidential candidate and challenge President Donald Trump in the Republican primaries. Cuban’s statement comes in the wake of media rumors and speculation that he is planning to run for president in 2020. […]

Looks like Donald Trump is gonna have some serious competition in 2020. Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks owner and shark on Shark Tank is “seriously considering” running as an independent candidate for the 2020 presidential election, as reported by USA Today. Cuban attended a business conference earlier this month in Atlanta, where he touched on […]

In Season 9 of Shark Tank, Mark Cuban may take Kevin O’Leary’s center seat on the panel at least once, but if a recent deal of O’Leary’s is any indication, Mr. Wonderful still sometimes gets the last laugh in the competitive world of television venture capital. Yesterday, Tech Crunch reported that grocery chain Albertsons acquired […]

Fans of Shark Tank know at least one thing for sure: Kevin O’Leary always gets the center seat on the panel. The tradition goes back not only to the origins of Shark Tank but to O’Leary’s time on Dragons’ Den, the CBC show of a similar format that predated the ABC powerhouse. But during Season […]

When Josh and Diana Harbour stepped on to the Shark Tank carpet more than three years ago, they didn’t know they were about to transport their already successful online business Red Dress Boutique into stratospheric territory. At the time of the summer, 2014, taping, Red Dress was on track to make $12 million in annual […]

Donald Trump turned down the opportunity to star in Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! after he decided that he didn’t just want to play the president on TV. This created a job for another billionaire, which reportedly made Trump very unhappy. In 2015, Donald Trump was up for the role of the president of the […]

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban played in the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game on Friday and used that opportunity to troll Donald Trump. The billionaire businessman has been feuding with the current president even before he was named the winner of the November election. Now it looks like Cuban may have had the last laugh in […]

A one-time supporter of Donald Trump, Mark Cuban is now firing back at the President. The Dallas Mavericks owner expressed strong support for Trump during the presidential race, and has since called for Americans to unite and give the President a chance. In recent months, however, Cuban’s outward position, as shared in the communication method […]

Mark Cuban may have supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 general election, but two weeks into the Donald Trump presidency, he believes his party of choice is “blowing it.” The billionaire investor and star of TV’s Shark Tank was asked about the political landscape in a Trump administration, and so far, he’s not impressed with […]

The Dallas Mavericks were not supposed to be this bad. When the NBA regular season began, there was some optimism thanks to team owner Mark Cuban. He fulfilled his promise to Dirk Nowitzki that he was going to build a competitive roster around him until the German superstar decided to end his playing career. Cuban […]

It’s no secret that the deals that happen on Shark Tank are nothing more than handshakes until both parties — shark and entrepreneur — go through a period of due diligence and sign a contract. In 2014, Bloomberg reported on blogger T.J. Hale’s analysis that two-thirds of Shark Tank deals fall apart completely after the […]

It was more than a decade ago that Diana Harbour decided to open a brick-and-mortar shop in Athens, Georgia, called The Red Dress Boutique. She and her husband, Josh, eventually grew that business into an online success, bringing a distinct aesthetic to their e-commerce site. Diana Harbour wrote on the Red Dress Boutique website that […]

After the fan fare of Shark Tank, there is work to be done behind the scenes. Henry Miller, the spiced-honey entrepreneur who landed a deal with Mark Cuban and Robert Herjavec when he was only 16 years old, discovered that. When you attempt to be prepared, things don’t always go as planned, and in business […]

Tomorrow night, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will face off in the first presidential debate of 2016. Many political experts are predicting the debate to be the most watched debate in history. As if watching Trump and Clinton verbally spar for two hours would not be entertaining enough, two other people who will be in […]

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has offered Donald Trump $10 million, and all Cuban wants is to sit down and talk with Trump for a few hours. In a series of tweets Cuban made on Friday, he offered to donate $10 million to the charity of Trump’s choice if the Republican nominee for president allowed […]

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is casting serious doubt on whether presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is as rich as he claims. True to his brash personality, the billionaire even had the gumption to tag Donald Trump in a tweet where he wrote, “If @realDonaldTrump were fractionally as rich as he says he is, […]

It was back in December 2015, that Shark Tank star and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban called Donald Trump — with whom he’s claimed friendship over the years — a “never ending source of Headline Porn.” Cuban claimed Trump’s ability to create salacious sound bites meant he was easily digested on social media and became […]

If Hillary Clinton selects Elizabeth Warren as her running mate in the 2016 presidential election, Mark Cuban acknowledged that he will probably vote for Donald Trump, the GOP standard-bearer. Warren is too much of a far-left, partisan Democrat, Cuban suggested. Warren endorsed Clinton last week after she locked up the Democrat nomination, and rumors have […]

When then 13-year-old Andrea Cao pitched on Shark Tank alongside her mother Hong, the teenager impressed Mark Cuban with her sales drive. Cao had sold 800 units of her family’s product, the acupressure device Q-Flex, by going door-to-door to massage businesses. The company got an investment from Cuban and Barbara Corcoran, who each paid $12,500 […]

Billionaire Mark Cuban has said he’s keen on joining the Democratic ticket in this year’s presidential election. Speaking to reporters at Politico on Thursday, the celebrity investor and Mavericks owner said his “independent, nonpartisan perspective” would make him a suitable vice presidential nominee for Hillary Clinton. He also went on to argue that his lack […]

Donald Trump and fellow rich guy Mark Cuban are supposedly friends. That’s what they have maintained in the past, anyway. These days, as Trump closes in on the Republican nomination for president, one would be hard-pressed to accurately refer to the upper crust cronies as pals, chums, or even frenemies. Indeed, while Donald Trump has […]

Early last week, Donald Trump said he’d “love” to debate Bernie Sanders as long as the event raised several million dollars for charity, perhaps $10-$15 million for women’s health. By Friday, according to The Guardian, Trump had backtracked, saying it was inappropriate for him to debate the likely second-place finisher in the Democratic race and […]

Donald Trump presents “immediate dangers” to the U.S., according to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in an interview with Chuck Todd on NBC’s Meet The Press. Clinton explained how she believes this campaign is unlike any other because presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is “unqualified to become president” and his ideas on how to […]

Mark Cuban has about six months to decide who gets his vote, but in a new interview with CNN, the billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank star pretty much shut down any chance he’d tick the box for Donald Trump. But he stopped short of a glowing endorsement of Trump’s likely rival, Hillary Clinton. On Monday, […]

Mark Cuban has confirmed that the GOP has been attempting to recruit Mark to run against Donald Trump for the Republican nomination. According to Fox Sports, Cuban, who currently owns the Dallas Mavericks, thinks he could put Trump “in his place” in a toe to toe billionaire bid for the presidency, but Mark doesn’t feel […]

NBA rumors are swirling around Chandler Parsons. As a handful of teams are still vying for the coveted championship, the Dallas Mavericks are now looking towards next season. One of the biggest decisions they have to make involve Parsons and his upcoming free agency status. According to Yahoo! Sports, there is a very good chance […]

Kevin Durant heard what Mark Cuban said about teammate Russell Westbrook and responded after his Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Dallas Mavericks and actually called Cuban an “idiot” for the comments. Cuban is known for saying some outlandish and inflammatory things over the years that he owned the Dallas Mavericks, and the “idiot” comments that […]

Dallas Mavericks’ owner Mark Cuban has upset quite a few fans today with his comment that Russell Westbrook is not a superstar. Westbrook has a ton of fans who feel like he is obviously a superstar. Cuban revealed that he sees Kevin Durant as the only superstar on the Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team. This […]